Deodoro-class coastal defense ship

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Deodoro
Class overview
NameDeodoro class
Builders Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France
Operators
Preceded by Javary class
Succeeded byNone
Built1898-1899
In service1900-1936
Completed2
Retired2
General characteristics
Type Coastal defence battleship
Displacement3,162 tons standard
Length81.5 meters
Beam14.4 meters
Draught4.19 meters
Propulsion
Speed15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement200
Armament
Armour
NotesIn 1912 both vessels were modernized with 8 Babcock & Wilcox oil-firing boilers, replacing the coal-fired boilers. 400 t of oil were carried.

The Deodoro class were two French-designed and -built coastal defense battleships built for the Brazilian Navy in the late 1890s. Upon their completion, Scientific American called them small vessels of a type "built only for second-rate naval powers," but also noted that it was a "wonder ... so much armor and armament could be carried" on a ship of its size. [1] They served the Brazilian Navy as its only modern armored warships until the arrival of two dreadnoughts in 1910. [2]

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The ships had a low freeboard and long superstructures with single-gun main turrets arranged at each end. Their secondary batteries were also mounted at each end of the superstructure, albeit in casemates in each corner. All used British Armstrong guns. [3]

In 1912, both ships were overhauled with new propulsion and armament. [2] In 1924, Brazil sold Marshal Deodoro to the Mexican Navy. [4] She served for another 14 years, primarily as a training vessel.[ citation needed ]

Deodoro-class coast-defense ships

References

  1. "The New Brazilian Armorclad 'Marshal Deodoro'" . Scientific American. 82 (12): 184. 24 March 1900. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican03241900-184a.
  2. 1 2 Lyon, p. 407
  3. Lyon, pp. 403–404
  4. The New International Year Book. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. 1925. p. 505.

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